US President Joe Biden plans to hold talks with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius, sources told Politico. According to the publication's sources familiar with Biden's plans, the meeting of the presidents is scheduled for July 12, but has not yet been finalized.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to support Sweden's bid to join NATO. This, writes BBC News, said the head of the alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, following negotiations with the Turkish leader, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, on the eve of the NATO summit in Vilnius.

The deputy head of mobilization for Krasnodar, Stanislav Rzhitsky, was killed, report the Telegram channels Shot , Baza , and Mash . Russian news agency TASS confirmed the reports, citing law enforcement agencies. The Krasnodar administration told RBK media group and Kommersant that Rzhitsky’s death was under investigation. The 42-year-old Rzhitsky was reportedly shot on the morning of June 10, while he was on a run near the Olympus Arena in Krasnodar.

A jury in the Sergiev Posad City Court in the Moscow Region found six associates of nationalist Maxim Martsinkevich, nicknamed Tesak, guilty of murdering migrants motivated by ethnic hatred in 2003, Mediazona reports. Charges of murder were brought against Semyon Tokmakov, Andrei Kail, Alexei Gudilin, Alexander Lysenkov, Maxim Khotulev and Pavel Khrulev, who were detained in Moscow, Sochi and Tyumen in December 2020.

The BBC said it had received a letter from the lawyer of a young man whose mother accused the BBC presenter of buying intimate photographs of her child.

telegram channels reported Stanislav Rzhitsky, deputy head of the city department for mobilization work, was killed in Krasnodar, the Shot , Baza and Mash . TASS, citing law enforcement agencies, confirms the murder of a military man. According to the agency, suspects are being identified. The administration of Krasnodar told RBC and Kommersant that law enforcement agencies are conducting an investigation into the death of Rzhitsky.

On July 10, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed reports that the president met with Yevgeny Prigozhin and multiple Wagner Group commanders just days after the mercenary leader’s armed rebellion against the Russian Defense Ministry. “Putin listened to the commanders’ explanations and proposed options for their further employment and combat deployment,” Peskov told journalists.

Petras Malukas / AFP / Scanpix / LETA NAFO participants meet in Vilnius. An inflatable shark is seen front and center. On July 8 and 9, ahead of the NATO Summit in Vilnius, another event took place: the NAFO (North Atlantic Fellas Organization) “summit.” According to NAFO’s founders, the organization was created to counter Russian propaganda and to troll Russian diplomats and propagandists.

How will this affect the front? And what will Russia answer? DVIDS / AFP / Scanpix / Leta US Army soldiers unload 155-mm dual-purpose ammunition during exercises. Such shells are prohibited by the Convention on Cassette Munitions in more than 100 countries. July 7, 2023 In early July, the US presidential adviser Jake Sullivan at a briefing with reporters said that the country was ready to transfer cassette ammunition to Ukraine.

Politician Alexei Navalny said that the administration of the colony forced him to listen to Vladimir Putin's message to the Federal Assembly for a hundred days in a row. According to Navalny, he asked the administration of the colony to “set up a different Putin,” to which he was told that the annual message of 2023 would be listened to throughout 2023. “The next appeal will come out - we will listen to it,” Navalny was told.

At the same time, Kyiv promises "long -term security guarantees" Ints Kalnins / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Presidential Palace in Vilnius on the eve of the NATO summit, July 10, 2023 Ukraine, most likely, will not receive an official invitation to join NATO at the alliance summit, which will be held on July 11-12 in Vilnius.

Danone has decided to rebrand its dairy product brand Activia to AktiBio for the Russian market, according to a press release ( .pdf ) from the company's Russian division. ActiBio's products will be produced to the same quality and safety standards, with the same taste characteristics, at the same production facilities, Danone said.

In one photo Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday that the president met with Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin after the latter’s failed mutiny, following similar reports Friday from the French newspaper Liberation. Peskov confirmed Monday that Prigozhin and Wagner Group commanders met with the president but said it occurred on June 29. He said the meeting lasted nearly three hours and included 35 people.

The Tushinsky District Court of Moscow found two visitors to Diana Arbenina's concert guilty under the administrative article on "discrediting" the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). As reported by the united press service of Moscow courts, Serebryansky A. and Shvedov E. ( the defendants' full names are not being disclosed - Meduza's note ) were each fined 30 thousand rubles.

The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow has closed for the press and listeners the consideration of the case of extortion of 11 million rubles from the head of the Rostec state corporation Sergey Chemezov, the court told TASS. The representative of the injured party asked to close the process, explaining that the case contained discrediting information, and during the court hearings, the personal data of the victims and the circumstances of the case would be disclosed.